SoMa Literary Review - Suffering of an Idiot

Suffering of an Idiot

By Steven Hoadley

I ran out of smokes two hours ago.

Now I'm pounding down butts
hoping the little bullets of death
will give birth to a writer
like the one that once sat
in my chair.

The only thing I can think to write about,
just got pissed and left.

'You sit in front of a computer too much,'
she said.
Writing about what a loser I was
and what a loser I still hope to be.

"I lived in hell for my art,"
I told her.
"Art?" she said.
"You call stories about
drunks,
junkies,
and child molesters,
art?"

"Someone once told me it was." I replied.

"THEY LIED!"

With that, she took her
hair dryer and brushes,
her sex, her tantrums, her morning smell,
and stormed out.

The echo of her departing scream
still fills the room.

I miss her already.

Also by Steven Hoadley on SoMa Literary Review:

The Life and Daily Death of Sam Mackie

Episode One: Thoroughly Bad James

Episode Two: Even Jesus Farted
Episode Three: A Love Story

Episode Four: Dave's Dementia

Episode Five: The Last Straw

Bedtime, Barbra Streisand can Shove Her Memories up Her Ass,
A Midnight Poem That Had to be Written Before Sleep Could Be Had, One Year,
Sunday Morning Coffee, The Rejection, A Reason to Move, The San Ramon War Protest, 86'd Again, Youth, Denny's, Karma, Suffering of an Idiot & Poem for all Western Civilization